Abstract
Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research
Highlights
It is a summer day in 2009 in Cambridge, England, and K. (39) looks out of his lab window, wondering why he chose the life of a scientist [1]
He took on a postdoc, Frieda, and a student, and they both settled in well
By mid 2007, K. began to worry about his future: the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) grant had run for less than two years, it was already high time to apply for another
Summary
It is a summer day in 2009 in Cambridge, England, and K. (39) looks out of his lab window, wondering why he chose the life of a scientist [1]. To expect a young scientist to recruit and train students and postdocs as well as producing and publishing new and original work within two years (in order to fuel the grant application) is preposterous. Who could dare change their research field, ever?’’—Ted Cox, Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology, Director of the Program on Biophysics, Princeton University
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